flitty
flitting

The premiere opens with a scene that is too flitty for Ms. Flockhart's new incarnation: she is arguing as she packs a suitcase, only it turns out that she is holding an imaginary conversation with her mother, and even in that exchange, she cannot score a point.

"Heaven grant it be a better one; for, in good sooth, I hardly think to tarry with my flock through the flitting seasons of another year!

Nor was Clifford incapable of feeling the sentiment of poetry,--not, perhaps, where it was highest or deepest, but where it was most flitting and ethereal.

Thy sickness, they say, and thy puny habit, require that thou do this or avoid that, but know that thy life is a flitting state, a tent for a night, and do thou, sick or well, finish that stint.